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Device for language processing enhancement in autism

a technology of language processing and autism, applied in the field of language processing, can solve the problems of difficulty in encoding the same word spoken by different speakers, difficulty in abstracting, etc., and achieve the effects of enhancing object perception, reducing predetermined acoustic detail characteristics, and enhancing language processing

Active Publication Date: 2016-07-21
EMBICK DAVID +1
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The present invention provides a method and device for improving the perception of auditory information in autistic individuals. The method involves modifying the auditory stream based on predetermined acoustic details that are associated with the individual and measured to enhance their language processing capability. This modification reduces the acoustic details while preserving the overall shape of the object, making it easier for the individual to perceive. The device includes an audio input interface, a storage device, and an acoustic detail manipulation unit with a loudspeaker for providing the modified auditory stream to the individual.

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Some children on the autism spectrum (and possibly related neuropsychiatric disorders such as central auditory processing delay (CAPD)) have a difficulty in “abstracting” or forming perceptual objects from acoustically distinct, but conceptually identical stimuli.
An example would include difficulty in the encoding of the same word spoken by different speakers.

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[0015]As discussed above, ASD individuals have difficulty abstracting perceptual objects from acoustically distinct but conceptually identical stimuli. This difficulty may be caused by impairment in the basic building blocks of language function, by the creation of redundant representations of the same “object”, colored by too much attention to irrelevant acoustic detail.

[0016]Evidence for such failure may be seen in electrophysiologic responses (e.g., recorded by magnetoencephalography (MEG), a type of functional brainwave mapping which allows depiction of brain function in space and time) indicating lack of “clustering” of responses around perceptual objects, a heightened sensitivity to acoustic (but not linguistic) differences and a general delay processing auditory input (secondary to exerting too much effort processing minor acoustic differences). Priming effects (both electrophysiologically and behaviorally) would also indicate heightened attention to “irrelevant” details, pre...

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Abstract

Methods and devices can enhance language processing in an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) individual through auditory manipulation of an auditory stream. The auditory stream is received and includes an acoustic stimulus perceptually representing an object. An acoustic manipulation parameter for a predetermined acoustic detail characteristic is selected. The predetermined acoustic detail characteristic is associated with the ASD individual and is based on a measured language processing capability of the ASD individual. The auditory stream is modified based on the selected parameter, to reduce the predetermined acoustic detail characteristic while preserving a lexicality of the stimulus, such that the reduced acoustic detail characteristic enhances perception of the object by the ASD individual even when the stimulus includes two or more acoustically distinct stimuli each perceptually representing the object. The modified auditory stream is output to the ASD individual via at least one loudspeaker.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional application Ser. No. 61 / 865,293 entitled DEVICE FOR ENHANCEMENT OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND RELATED LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS, filed on Aug. 13, 2013, which is incorporated fully herein by reference.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH[0002]The present invention was made with government support under Grant No. R01HD073258 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The United States Government has certain rights in the invention.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0003]The present invention relates to language processing. More particularly, the present invention relates to devices and methods for language processing enhancement for individuals with language impairment disorders based on reduction of acoustic detail in the auditory stream.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a set of developmental disorders which are identified ...

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IPC IPC(8): G09B19/00G10L21/0364G09B5/04G10L15/26A61B5/00A61B5/05G10L21/003G10L13/02
CPCG09B19/00G10L21/003G10L21/0364G09B5/04G10L15/26A61B5/4803A61B5/05G10L13/02A61B5/168G09B19/04G09B23/28G10L13/00G10L2021/065
Inventor ROBERTS, TIMOTHYEMBICK, DAVID
Owner EMBICK DAVID
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